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Something Else! Featured Artist: The Funky, Funky JB Horns
James Brown got all of the headlines, be they for his fancy moves, his fancier suits or his brushes with the law. But the JB Horns, those great groovers who provided the punctuation to every grunt, gasp and squeal, remain an underrated element to the legend. Maceo Parker, the muscular saxophonist, has perhaps had the most ...
Matt Penman e la sua "James Farm"
by AAJ Italy Staff
Intervista di R.J. DeLuke Negli ultimi anni, Matt Penman e il suo contrabbasso hanno calcato le scene di una gran varietà di ambiti musicali, tutti di altissimo livello. E ciò testimonia sia della sua bravura sia della sua capacità di adattarsi alle situazioni più disparate, nelle quali emergono il suo tocco armonioso, il suono ricco ed ...
Arto Tuncboyacıyan: Mr. Avant-Garde Folk
by Ian Patterson
Though a good number of notable jazz fusion bands and musicians have sprung up over the course of the last 40 years, the same few names from the '70s continue to serve as references--and sources of inspiration--in this, the second decade of the 21st century. Most notable are Weather Report, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Tony Williams' Lifetime, Herbie ...
Something Else! Interview: Delfeayo Marsalis, Producer and Trombonist
Delfeayo Marsalis, recipient of the 2011 NEA Jazz Masters Award, stepped out with a rare recording as a leader this year—just his second since the 1990s. Sweet Thunder: Duke and Shak, a canny reworking of Duke Ellington's 1957 suite Such Sweet Thunder on Troubadour Jazz, led to a 36-date theatrical jazz production that ran through May. ...
Leading Questions: Jim Wilke
The best advice I've ever received is “you're not talking to an audience of thousands, you're talking to thousands of audiences of one or two." When I was 14 I was playing alto sax in concert band and listening to Western Swing on the radio during the day and jazz late at night. Broadcasting jazz has ...
Who Shot Miles?
From 1965-1985 one of the New York metro area's hotspots for live jazz was the Blue Coronet in Brooklyn—the Bedford-Stuyvesant community to be exact. Sometimes I wonder if perhaps Brooklyn should be labeled the Second City instead of Chicago, given the backseat that storied borough so often takes to its little sister Manhattan (Brooklyn being by ...
Bernard Herrmann at 100
Composer Bernard Herrmann emerged from the Golden Age of cinema and contributed a signature sound to some of history's most significant films. While his name may not be known to most of today's filmgoers—he died, after all, a full generation or two ago in 1975—Bernard Herrmann's music is undoubtedly some of the best and best known ...
Chris Taylor: Never Make Your Move Too Soon
by Ian Patterson
It's taken 30 years, but you can't rush something if it's not there. Chris Taylor's debut recording as leader, Nocturnal (Abstract Logix, 2011), is the result of the direction his composing has led him these last two or three years, but it could be seen in a wider context as the accumulated experience of three decades ...
Gretchen Parlato: Quiet Revolutionary
by Ian Patterson
It's safe to say that singer Gretchen Parlato has her admirers. The Boston Globe praised her as “the most original jazz singer in a generation," and pianist Herbie Hancock has described her connection to music as “almost magical." Saxophonist Wayne Shorter has likened her art to that of Frank Sinatra. It's hard to remember the last ...
Bassist Jair-Rohm Parker Wells Summer 2011
Jair-Rohm Parker Wells is a bassist who knows no limits. From ground-breaking slap bass on pop hits to avant-garde electronica to Jazz and Blues. He literally covers all basses. Jair-Rohm rounded out last year with a new quartet release as well as a residency at the Lima Lima club in Pattaya, Thailand with other former members ...
